- Authentic assessments (vs grades, Aps, exams, etc)
- Get rid of APs
- De emphasize product/content/"test"
- Alternative assessment becoming "normal" assessment
- Disenfranchise E.T.S.
- Develop an outside board of "expert learners" to "grade" or give credit/value to student assessments
- Create rubrics to "evaluate" and clear the way/process if your students accomplishing "x" project
- Restructure curriculum
- Less testing. Changing form of assessment to value beyond memory
- Getting rid of all standardized tests
- Establish guidelines/ boundaries so that there is balance between "passion" and what "needs" to be learned
- Focus on skills.Assume content is more reading available.
- Recognize that these are a work in progress that evolve overtime and instantaneous perfection is not realistic or desirable.
- Barrier- dont know how to grade passion learning. Rubric should be the same as any research project
- Do away with AP classes that are intensely content-based
- Get colleges to view this type of learning as just as important if not more than traditional
- Make 21st century classroom part of teacher evaluation
Leadership (29 dots)
- Administrative support for change
- Administrators co-teaching classes with faculty
- Take administrators on virtual learning journey
- Administration showing a stake in a culture shift of learning through communication and discussion
- Support for individual teachers trying new tools
- Create a tech coordinator position to bridge IT department and Edu gap
- Drive from the administration to effectively innovate and change and improve old ways of teaching
- Admin should attend PLP
- Mandate tech training for all (and new) teachers
- Tech training boot camp for administrators
- Learn from educational leaders
- Come together to see the change
- Show how tech is relevant to traditional curriculum
- Administrative "atta boys" Admin support
- Get education leaders to come and talk to our school
- Top management/mandates to ensure buy-in
- Complete submission to Edutopian ideology
- Recognition that 21st learning may not always incorporate technology but any innovations
- Demand 21st century forward thinkers of all administration
- One person, correctly placed, can model and mandate a reasonable goal for all teachers
- Have administrators try to teach/do what they envision
- Clear roles and procedures. Who do we go to for what? Create a chart or infrastructure that we all share
- More staff to do work more quickly
- Make implementation part of review process
- Quarterly rotating service projects in the community
- Term limits for leadership positions then cycle through
Resources (36 dots)
- Provide laptops to all
- Give every teacher a laptop and a summer institute on 5 web 2.0 tools- expectation that they use and report quarterly
- Have laptops that work for each student
- Allow iPods- student tech tin classrooms
- Have a resource audit and list available resources and where to get them
- Not only provide 3-12 with 1-1 but provide high level ed tech support to faculty for limited time frame (2 years)
- Join electric software sharing network
- List suggestions to teach dept how laptops/netbooks schedule can improve
- Laptop school- we need $ to support our tech goals
- Change: mobile computer policy... aka "cell phone policy"
- Access to technology (laptop school as a goal)
- Use Skype and You Tube for more demonstrations rather then or add to own demos
- 1:1 laptops for students
- $ diverted to PD in-house
- Take advantage of tech offers to support your curriculum
- Use existing technology in multiple ways/learn (new) more uses of tools
- Computers
- Web access 24/7 for every student in every class
- Provide tech support liberally
- Beg for a smartboard
- Tech dept assistance 24/7= fabulous, it`s working for me!
- Get grants for computers
- Have academic tech support person (full time)
- Become a computer based school (netbooks or such) so no class is limited in its possibilities by resources
- More resources
- Putting more technology tools in the classroom- Flicker, TSlog, online articles
- Laptops for everyone with education how to use them
- "On the spot" tech support for teachers to gain confidence in the "system"
- One-to-one computing
- buy more computers
- An administrator should be involved in PLP and understand it
- All administrators must also teach
- Admissions people more involved- can articulate 21st century learning potential to parents/students
- Team meetings with and without admin
- Tech person has weekly planning meetings with team of teachers
- We have administrative support for this work
Budget (5dots)
- Tech bake sale
- Our school appoints/hires an instructional technology integration specialist
- Create posting tech. curriculum coordinator
- More money for technology
- Students are motivated to get their own tools/iPads/etc
- Targeted fund raising for technology
- Unlimited equipment budget
Accountability (30 dots)
- Administrators more intimately involved in technological challenges for teachers
- New Fac. evaluation ties professional growth to professional development. Conversation based and individualized
- Online discussion groups
- Posting minutes to meetings on a wiki
- Feedback for tech in lessons (mandatory)
- 1 person per team responsible for incorporating tech each semester
- Public lesson plans
- Students assess themselves
- Requiring new ways for teachers to share work such as a wiki for lesson plans etc. Maybe T-T binders as well?
- Add tech to no child left behind
- Reorganize the structure of power/decision making. Educational tech spec. is over/supported by tech/infrastructure
- Will students use their time wisely? Same problem with any research project. Create rubric.
- Be prepared for critical feedback. See it as a learning experience
- Have experts make tech decisions
- Move transparent evaluation process with focus on this shift
- Integrating "tech" life skills into every subject
- Create new rules for accountability
- Ment based pay, with ties for being a self-directed learner (as a teacher)
- Make use of new ideas part of faculty assess
- Faculty online blogging. Web presence as professional expectation (active learning)
Communication (27 dots)
- Make clear policy about safety re: publishing student images or content on web
- Blended learning
- Move away from diminishing the word "passion"- use it to tap into talent
- Public relations for cool projects (eg. Nina`s podcast) like a well-designed portal page
- Common Language- disciplinary, educational, technology, learning
- Development of tech curriculum in all levels of classes to help students (and teachers) become fluent in tools so that they can move past that barrier
- New web page design with teacher web pages- everyone has to learn the new system
- Director of technology and learning (ed students and faculty on whats out there and how to use it)
- Know/plan expectations and have no interruptions?
- Hire a full time technology communication facilitator for keeping faculty informed and in touch
- Find one idea and stick with it
- School-wide initiatives should be limited so that select ones could be done well and follow thru is assured
- Have a schedule online so all people can sign up for computer lab
Hope (8 dots)
- Hope
- Look at every project, ask what would make it better- try one new thing
- Just do it! Start using inquiry based methods. -Use new tools- It will be infectious. Other teachers will follow when they see your success
- Plow through with students and hope for the best
Security (8 dots)
- Redefine our school audience. Where and with whom are we posting and communicating?
- Teach internet safety to students and parents
- Opening access
Students (14 dots)
- Create student leadership teams to collaborate with and support teachers in designing interactive projects
- US ning is working well: take it to the next level by modeling for students how to read online news sources
- Students to use tools such as Moodle or Ning or Email: Require all faculty to post homework on Moodle.
- Student led committee as input to curriculum development
- Give student the opportunity to teach teachers on how to teach class
- Student interaction with each other in ning is working well. Invite other schools to join with our students
- Faculty and student technology committee
- Discussing/exploring criteria for student self-assessment- build it into a legitimate form- strengthen teachers use of rubrics
- Require students to investigate a tool and use it to present new subject matter they are learning. (not everyone require to use same tools)
- Education
- Self- reflection is regarded as more valuable and "worth more" than ability to recall facts
- Have a longer school day but no HW
- To combat student/teacher resisting, just change 1 thing- dont think that you have to change everything at once
- Students will be able to collaborate with people all over the world
Parents (37 dots)
- E-portfolios which can be used to educate parents and alums as well as students
- Monthly parent meetings- team specific. Maybe community involvement
- Curriculum that teachers skills while allowing students to focus on their passions
- Parent education. Sharing resources and current research
- Start a blog about importance of shift and invite parents and teachers and students to subscribe
- Offer classes to parents
- Lead parent workshops on "what is my role as a parent in helping my child learn 21st century skills?"
- Engage parents in tech conversations
- Build mini communities around learning new technologies
- Barrier- Parents want to know what you`re covering. In passion-based learning teacher research skills/reading/writing/presentation
- Train parents to think differently
- Parental education
- To create more time put parents and teachers and students together in a workshop
- Parent ed workshops to build relational partnerships (home-school) around tech use of kids
- Make your objects super clear
- Present success or future plans to parents so they can "buy in" to more active learning
- Set expectations and inform the parents since the beginning of the year
- The school could invite parents to a mini "PLP" night to help them understand the shift
- Host parent ed nights
- Education for parents to adapt to 21st century learning
- Parent education- need parental buy in
- Educate parents, students, and faculty about the importance of collaboration and community
- Regular conversations and dialogue with parents about education innovation
- Bring parents into the conversation and provide learning opps for them
- Parent workshops on social networking
- Use "PR" to tout inventive student work around academic content to parents
- Get parents to sign contract- to support school and let school teach and students learn
- Parents that expect teachers to try new ideas
- Introduce parents to the same tools the students encounter. More parent support= administration support
- Invite parents into classroom to see what the shift is about
- Invite parents to visit classrooms and participate in project based learning using web 2.0 tools
- Parent workshops to help them to educate themselves about technology tools. In that way they can become helpers effectively mentoring children at home supporting the school innovations
Schedule (82 dots)
- Alter schedule to allow for longer periods
- Re do the schedule
- Provide a schedule time for cross-curricular project development
- Year round schools with internships
- Longer time with students
- Change the schedule to create more free time
- A longer school year with regularly places (monthly) 3 day weekends 2 weeks between terms and 4-5 week summer vacation
- Use "study hall" time differently..- Guidance practice, collaboration, research-> time for passion-based exploration
- An hour every week for exploration
- Blow up the schedule and start again
- Each grade design its own schedule
- Change physical schedule of the day
- Rethink schedule for flexibility
- Break down the schedule
- Allow teachers to reduce amount of content to be covered in their courses
- Flexible schedule different structure to our days
- Blended learning
- Block schedule
- Design a schedule for project based learning
- Evaluate how our class schedule matched our learning goals and make needed changes
- More team teaching or splitting of responsibilities with colleagues to relive some of the teaching pressures
- All-year school with online blend
Time (24 dots)
- Practice, practice, practice, before classes settings
- Change idea: school for students and teachers.. schedule a block of time for teachers to learn and plan
- Nitty-gritty information is disseminated via email, F2F time as used to brainstorm/share ideas; faculty are learning in faculty meetings, not just listeners
- Decide this matters more than other initiatives and give 1-2 year commitment only to talk/focus on it
- Hire a tech integrationist to help classroom teachers
- Commit/team agrees to a specific amount of team time each month for collegial planning of pedagogy
- Weekly 1/2 days to do planning
- Use the longest blocks you have for technology
- Decrease teacher duties so teachers have time to develop new lessons and learn technology
- Give faculty time to work together to learn new tools and methods
- Dedicate faculty meeting time to share about 21st century tool use
- Individual can set modest but attainable goals. Eg: take one unit per trimester and 21st centuryize it
- Understand our curriculum better so we can combine overlapping lessons and create available time for students and teachers
- Retreats and paid workshops for faculty to share ideas, learn new tools and strategies
- Time to do projects built into curriculum maps
- Team dept and cross dept practice a new tool together
- Time to educate teachers. Schedules include this-
- Schedule days for self-selected faculty PD
- Lots of faculty meeting time allotted to discussion of innovation going on in different classrooms
- Regular faculty development over a month
- More time for communication/collaboration built- in (so it does`nt feel like one more thing)
- Faculty who like and respect each other find the time
- Set aside time for faculty/staff collaboration and creativity
- More frequent PD days
- Giving teachers more open periods to plan, learn, question, develop
- More work from home
- More money so more teachers can be hired and course bad decrease to allow time for technology
- Rethink what a full teaching really is
- Listen more teachers to lesson load
- Freeing up time constraints
- Time given to faculty to redesign and implement new ideas and technology
- Extend the school day/year but require more work periods- teacher guided "labs" instead of content delivery
- Help teachers relieve the pressure to follow a context based curriculum by scheduling a monthly passion-based inquiry each year
- Breakfast meetings, free food, engaging discussions, small groups
- After school/weekend classes for extra money
College Expectations (50 dots)
- Create organization to open up communication between schools and higher ed institutions. Place for primary/secondary to cover concerns about SATs/College admin process and for colleges to express concern about whats not being taught in schools
- Redesign college acceptance process- no entrance tests- portfolio and essay only
- Widen core curriculum to include arts
- Lobby for end of standardize testing
- Abolish Aps
- Organize a committee that will orchestrate this change in colleges/high schools at the same time. Agree to eliminate SAT it crunches us into a box.
- Redesign of SAT -College admission- grade requirements
- Change what colleges require to "get in"
- Stress the importance of finishing the best college for each student, not the best college as rated by news week
- Creation of new college acceptance methods
- Written campaign to colleges to change criteria for acceptance
Disposition/Attitudes/Culture (50 dots)
- Individuals can: just get started. Michael Jordan did not get good over night
- Encourage a culture of professional learning
- Make learning public- show the results of passion-based learning and support kids in making a good presentation
- Decision skills model and live good decision making
- Model change
- Talk, talk, talk with teachers about issues- "out" the worries and give one another support to explore the new
- Let go of fears
- Talk to the school board about why learning needs to change
- Incorporate the shift in the philosophy statement
- Collecting data: asses where people are in terms of "shift" so know starting point
- Before every teacher will make a change, every teacher must realize why change is needed. Start educating. The train is leaving.. get on before it leaves
- Schools should host great "thinkers" and invite teachers and parents- model what someone who is "passionate" looks/sounds like (TED talk-ish)
- Intentionally change the culture and language of departments/levels to be more inclusive of technology
- Trust/educate students not to go off-task during discussions
- Get up and go ask the teacher next door how to do it
- Just do it. Just start doing things and implementing lessons and let the buying begin
- Get started. Stay away from negative people
- Freedom of curriculum design (passion) for teachers and students
- Put old way and new way side by side for project to show improvement
- Cultivate a culture of innovation
- Individuals: model positive behavior and a problem-solving approach
- Have a time to celebrate new methods of presenting to encourage others.
- Create regular staff time- making it part of the culture- to share and learn together.. tools, struggles
- Technology support- communication, communication, communication about what do you need/want/expect from them
- Students consult on tech decisions and pre-test (student-teacher task force)
- More use of students to show faculty what works for them
- Accepting that 3rd graders still need to be taught traditionally
Hardware/Infrastructure (38 dots)
- Tech plan development needs to address transparent system (equipment, pd, etc)
- Allow students to use mobile devices in school
- A really useful/user friendly online center point through which all of our ideas/projects can be reached/used
- Blended learning
- I could get a 2010 computer!
- Access the library laptops more frequently
- Lots of good tech support
- Hardware`s nothing without support
- Technology support group that allow face to face help
- Technology that works
- Free v fee tools thru listserus, tutorials, workshops, etc, stay current on new tools available
- Laptop for 7-12 graders
- 1:1 laptops
- Every student has iPad or laptops of their own- so access is not an issue
- Laptops for all students
- Digital divide utilize class time and or implement laptops into program
- Lend out tools doe use during vacation times and for personal use
- Full time technology resource person on staff
- Additional educational technology staff
- Working now: infrastructure is good.. will get better in time
- School tech team: include teachers in creation of tech support system
- 2 dozen electrical outlets in every room
- Rewire all the old buildings
- Making sure the things we need are accessible. No blocking!!
Collaboration (55 dots)
- Students led project based learning for teachers, reverse roles.
- Involve the students- teach them and have them teach the faculty
- Have one project as a grade level presented 1 month, teachers work together for 1-2 months, present to division
- Choose a grade level and develop deeply into a shared/chosen web 2.0 initiative, but make it all the teachers at that level
- Team teach
- Team teaching in every classroom
- Each one- teach one. Every teacher/team make two Sept commitments to 1) learn a new approach 2) teach a colleague what you learned
- Each faculty meeting every division should start with two 3-5 min spotlight on current in-house projects
- Team teach a lesson to learn from each other
- Reshape focus of faculty interchange to allow learning not just listening in faculty meetings
- Team taught classes
- Integrate projects with more disciplines to add more time and opportunity to use 2.0 tools
- Curriculum planning/ redevelopment time
- Workshops/trainings
- Teacher/student collaboration toward common goal. Teachers must let go of their ego
- Technology coordinator to help teachers how to use those 2.0 tools
- Department meetings or specific topics weekly
- Advocate for change and why
- Hold 5 min brainstorm session during lunch
- Dialogue
- Staff to staff mentors to read and reflect lesson plans (public)
- Setting up more inter-building collaboration so students can help students and teachers learn new tech things
- Join with a "reluctant" hesitant peer to use technology at a personal level
- More Skype and collaboration with other schools across the country and world
- As pre-cursor perhaps have faculty show and tell before selecting PD
- Go-to subject area faculty members
- What can an individual do? Model, model, model!
- Structured collaboration workshops for teachers
- Interdisciplinary classes
- Inter-departmental conversations to present opportunity for interdisciplinary learning
- Have teachers share favorite web 2.0 tool of software when they meet
- Decide as a team to try new curriculum= comfort in working in a collaborative group
- Participate in lesson study together- and post ideas online to collect "outside" commentary
- "Team teaching" old world new application (?) 2+ learners in the middle
- Sell the administration on the changes you wish to see
Instruction (36 dots)
- New sets of goals
- Require online learning in every course. Make time for it
- Teach 1/4 of my English class online
- PLE, assign every student a different technology
- Let students design and present lessons
- If students use computer in class, they should sometimes have access only to website and tools I control at that moment.
- Aligning tech goals with ELA standards- no one has to look it up!
- Independent projects in upper school ( try similar with some in middle and lower)
- Working on social studies curriculum revision in LS (support by admin)
- PBL projects/models/exemplars for content/grade
- Require an inquiry based research project each year at each grade level
- Simply begin a passion based lesson and see how it goes
- Have people who know of great web 2.0 tools teach others how to use them
- Allow students to use the available technology to lead the lesson
- Start revamping traditional projects to integrate technology
- Use technology to help students learn to think not just find quick "answers"
- Develop technology that discourages multi-tasking some how
- Value prototyping: Every teachers goal is to try one new teaching technique
- Limit class size to 10 or 12 max
- Barrier- not enough time to teach basic knowledge. Give direction to passion-based learning that includes basic knowledge
- Internships in businesses to see what kind of tools are being used
Professional Learning Communities (94 dots)
- Redesign in Service
- Sharing success
- Dedicated time for planning and collaboration
-Repurpose faculty meetings and team time
Professional Development (5 dots)
- Faculty incentive
- Integration specialist
- Money and time earmarked for outside courses, visits
- Making it social and fun
- Develop common ground
- Tech teachers, 1 per 3 teachers
- Ask to have more PD time for just collaboration
- Find time that is accountable for faculty passion learning
- Engage the community in cross division experimentation
- Use librarians as resource for students in independent research project by submitting thesis statements to librarians ahead of time
- an on staff professional dedicated to helping teachers rewrite their curriculum for the 21st century
- Faculty intimidated by technology: assign big brother or sister for tech support
- Teacher workshops/PD that involve the creation of a product rather than relaying information (modeling what we want in classrooms)
- Weekly seminars (mini lessons) surrounding tech education. mandatory
- Time devoted in faculty meetings to introducing 1 idea at a time
- Meeting times where faculty can "show and tell" computer skills, sites, etc
- More open sharing of curriculum, conversations about curriculum, blogs, maps nets?
- Teacher model passion based inquiry and accept diverse final products
- Identify strengths already expected. Active learning. Not necessarily tied to technology
- Age/grade level learning tools and working on a common projector goals
- I could go observe Susan`s class at a time when the kids are working on their blog
- Working- conferences
- Have a technology specialist work with divisions for hands on workshop
- Tech specialist with solution programs
- highlight 5 new tools per year and bring in expert to introduce them. Have "experts" or trouble shooters within faculty
- Focused/targeted PD&E for faculty/staff so skill level/comfort level grows/ builds in authentic/class-based ways
- Educate and engage the community
- Inservice devoted to curriculum design supported by tech and library staff
- Develop non traditional programs. Get away from textbooks so they have to do research
- Educate administrators and teachers who are stuck in their ways of the importance of change in schools
- More substantive discussions of risks vs rewards of internet use
- Give teachers an opportunity to express resistance to technology. dont assume theyre wrong.
- Use in-service days wisely
- More professional development days for technology training
- Year long weekly teachers in-service on 21st century learning
- Restructure faculty meetings- all info that can be communicated electronically should be. This would free up time for faculty to work with these tools
- We could have a section on the wiki where teachers who are comfortable using certain tools volunteer to teach those who are beginers
- Wiki tutorials and discussions for help getting started on a new tool, ideas to use it: moderated by team
- Creative teacher with website, wikis, blogs, willingness to try
- Connect community (parents, faculty, staff, students) with the mission and value
- Have PD around fear/not knowing/being comfortable in darkness
- More targeted prof development- initiated by teachers
- Release time during the day to pursue DIYPD
- Formal plan to send department head to PD
- Put in place- participation in PLP and AIS ning
- PD for faculty- ongoing
- Workshops to teach web 2.0 tools
- I could set aside some time to learn a new tool on my own, or in a summer tech workshop
- Faculty read and discuss together a book on "21st century learning" so have a common ground
- Require that all teachers need same professional development book on 21st century topic in summer
- Have faculty in-service days dedicated to web 2.0 collaboration
- Have a weekly schedule for technology assistance so teachers have the time to get familiarized with the different tools and have subject based division meetings to create lessons that include 21st century tools
- Get support from colleagues outside of school
- Have monthly technology parties to get people interested
- Getting people on board with workshops and already made lessons
- Show success stories of tech integration
- Keep talking to our colleagues
- Create time for a small group of teachers and "expert" to collaborate. Give them a day or two out of the classroom to meet.
- Finding PD opportunities for faculty not creating our own
- Form groups of faculty member who have common interests issues, etc
- Provide explicit release time and expectation for that time
- Use of blogs for faculty sharing so meetings are more productive and people converse on own schedule instead of searching for common times.
- Have faculty meeting times be redirected toward collaborative work
- Summer institutes for teachers
- Make the faculty learning fun
- Provide focused professional development sessions, ie by content type
- PBL with teachers at professional development so they can try it
- Set sate to have lunch with fellow cohort school: how about Weston?
- Literacy of how- to that enable teachers to train themselves on technology
- Summer faculty led mini technology sessions where faculty learn a new approach/tool and write curriculum for upcoming year
- Mandatory higher levels of teachers web 2.0/ computer professionals
- Create opportunities for school-wide/cross unite conversations
- Mandatory technology classes
- Minimum PD house requirements per year for all faculty and administrations
- Development and implementation of integrated plan
- Develop vehicles to bring the world into our classrooms- starter course for rookies
- Use "mini grants" to incentivize work in this area
- Give teachers cool gadgets to play with
- One needs to change the way one teaches is ones changing the media used
- Incentives for motivated faculty (iPod touch, etc)
- Cash incentives for trying new tools
- More paid time to work with colleagues over the summer (when new ideas are easier to consider and plan for)
- Provide "how to" technology sessions for teachers
Assessment (39 dots)
- Authentic assessments (vs grades, Aps, exams, etc)
- Get rid of APs
- De emphasize product/content/"test"
- Alternative assessment becoming "normal" assessment
- Disenfranchise E.T.S.
- Develop an outside board of "expert learners" to "grade" or give credit/value to student assessments
- Create rubrics to "evaluate" and clear the way/process if your students accomplishing "x" project
- Restructure curriculum
- Less testing. Changing form of assessment to value beyond memory
- Getting rid of all standardized tests
- Establish guidelines/ boundaries so that there is balance between "passion" and what "needs" to be learned
- Focus on skills.Assume content is more reading available.
- Recognize that these are a work in progress that evolve overtime and instantaneous perfection is not realistic or desirable.
- Barrier- dont know how to grade passion learning. Rubric should be the same as any research project
- Do away with AP classes that are intensely content-based
- Get colleges to view this type of learning as just as important if not more than traditional
- Make 21st century classroom part of teacher evaluation
Leadership (29 dots)
- Administrative support for change
- Administrators co-teaching classes with faculty
- Take administrators on virtual learning journey
- Administration showing a stake in a culture shift of learning through communication and discussion
- Support for individual teachers trying new tools
- Create a tech coordinator position to bridge IT department and Edu gap
- Drive from the administration to effectively innovate and change and improve old ways of teaching
- Admin should attend PLP
- Mandate tech training for all (and new) teachers
- Tech training boot camp for administrators
- Learn from educational leaders
- Come together to see the change
- Show how tech is relevant to traditional curriculum
- Administrative "atta boys" Admin support
- Get education leaders to come and talk to our school
- Top management/mandates to ensure buy-in
- Complete submission to Edutopian ideology
- Recognition that 21st learning may not always incorporate technology but any innovations
- Demand 21st century forward thinkers of all administration
- One person, correctly placed, can model and mandate a reasonable goal for all teachers
- Have administrators try to teach/do what they envision
- Clear roles and procedures. Who do we go to for what? Create a chart or infrastructure that we all share
- More staff to do work more quickly
- Make implementation part of review process
- Quarterly rotating service projects in the community
- Term limits for leadership positions then cycle through
Resources (36 dots)
- Provide laptops to all
- Give every teacher a laptop and a summer institute on 5 web 2.0 tools- expectation that they use and report quarterly
- Have laptops that work for each student
- Allow iPods- student tech tin classrooms
- Have a resource audit and list available resources and where to get them
- Not only provide 3-12 with 1-1 but provide high level ed tech support to faculty for limited time frame (2 years)
- Join electric software sharing network
- List suggestions to teach dept how laptops/netbooks schedule can improve
- Laptop school- we need $ to support our tech goals
- Change: mobile computer policy... aka "cell phone policy"
- Access to technology (laptop school as a goal)
- Use Skype and You Tube for more demonstrations rather then or add to own demos
- 1:1 laptops for students
- $ diverted to PD in-house
- Take advantage of tech offers to support your curriculum
- Use existing technology in multiple ways/learn (new) more uses of tools
- Computers
- Web access 24/7 for every student in every class
- Provide tech support liberally
- Beg for a smartboard
- Tech dept assistance 24/7= fabulous, it`s working for me!
- Get grants for computers
- Have academic tech support person (full time)
- Become a computer based school (netbooks or such) so no class is limited in its possibilities by resources
- More resources
- Putting more technology tools in the classroom- Flicker, TSlog, online articles
- Laptops for everyone with education how to use them
- "On the spot" tech support for teachers to gain confidence in the "system"
- One-to-one computing
- buy more computers
- An administrator should be involved in PLP and understand it
- All administrators must also teach
- Admissions people more involved- can articulate 21st century learning potential to parents/students
- Team meetings with and without admin
- Tech person has weekly planning meetings with team of teachers
- We have administrative support for this work
Budget (5dots)
- Tech bake sale
- Our school appoints/hires an instructional technology integration specialist
- Create posting tech. curriculum coordinator
- More money for technology
- Students are motivated to get their own tools/iPads/etc
- Targeted fund raising for technology
- Unlimited equipment budget
Accountability (30 dots)
- Administrators more intimately involved in technological challenges for teachers
- New Fac. evaluation ties professional growth to professional development. Conversation based and individualized
- Online discussion groups
- Posting minutes to meetings on a wiki
- Feedback for tech in lessons (mandatory)
- 1 person per team responsible for incorporating tech each semester
- Public lesson plans
- Students assess themselves
- Requiring new ways for teachers to share work such as a wiki for lesson plans etc. Maybe T-T binders as well?
- Add tech to no child left behind
- Reorganize the structure of power/decision making. Educational tech spec. is over/supported by tech/infrastructure
- Will students use their time wisely? Same problem with any research project. Create rubric.
- Be prepared for critical feedback. See it as a learning experience
- Have experts make tech decisions
- Move transparent evaluation process with focus on this shift
- Integrating "tech" life skills into every subject
- Create new rules for accountability
- Ment based pay, with ties for being a self-directed learner (as a teacher)
- Make use of new ideas part of faculty assess
- Faculty online blogging. Web presence as professional expectation (active learning)
Communication (27 dots)
- Make clear policy about safety re: publishing student images or content on web
- Blended learning
- Move away from diminishing the word "passion"- use it to tap into talent
- Public relations for cool projects (eg. Nina`s podcast) like a well-designed portal page
- Common Language- disciplinary, educational, technology, learning
- Development of tech curriculum in all levels of classes to help students (and teachers) become fluent in tools so that they can move past that barrier
- New web page design with teacher web pages- everyone has to learn the new system
- Director of technology and learning (ed students and faculty on whats out there and how to use it)
- Know/plan expectations and have no interruptions?
- Hire a full time technology communication facilitator for keeping faculty informed and in touch
- Find one idea and stick with it
- School-wide initiatives should be limited so that select ones could be done well and follow thru is assured
- Have a schedule online so all people can sign up for computer lab
Hope (8 dots)
- Hope
- Look at every project, ask what would make it better- try one new thing
- Just do it! Start using inquiry based methods. -Use new tools- It will be infectious. Other teachers will follow when they see your success
- Plow through with students and hope for the best
Security (8 dots)
- Redefine our school audience. Where and with whom are we posting and communicating?
- Teach internet safety to students and parents
- Opening access
Students (14 dots)
- Create student leadership teams to collaborate with and support teachers in designing interactive projects
- US ning is working well: take it to the next level by modeling for students how to read online news sources
- Students to use tools such as Moodle or Ning or Email: Require all faculty to post homework on Moodle.
- Student led committee as input to curriculum development
- Give student the opportunity to teach teachers on how to teach class
- Student interaction with each other in ning is working well. Invite other schools to join with our students
- Faculty and student technology committee
- Discussing/exploring criteria for student self-assessment- build it into a legitimate form- strengthen teachers use of rubrics
- Require students to investigate a tool and use it to present new subject matter they are learning. (not everyone require to use same tools)
- Education
- Self- reflection is regarded as more valuable and "worth more" than ability to recall facts
- Have a longer school day but no HW
- To combat student/teacher resisting, just change 1 thing- dont think that you have to change everything at once
- Students will be able to collaborate with people all over the world
Parents (37 dots)
- E-portfolios which can be used to educate parents and alums as well as students
- Monthly parent meetings- team specific. Maybe community involvement
- Curriculum that teachers skills while allowing students to focus on their passions
- Parent education. Sharing resources and current research
- Start a blog about importance of shift and invite parents and teachers and students to subscribe
- Offer classes to parents
- Lead parent workshops on "what is my role as a parent in helping my child learn 21st century skills?"
- Engage parents in tech conversations
- Build mini communities around learning new technologies
- Barrier- Parents want to know what you`re covering. In passion-based learning teacher research skills/reading/writing/presentation
- Train parents to think differently
- Parental education
- To create more time put parents and teachers and students together in a workshop
- Parent ed workshops to build relational partnerships (home-school) around tech use of kids
- Make your objects super clear
- Present success or future plans to parents so they can "buy in" to more active learning
- Set expectations and inform the parents since the beginning of the year
- The school could invite parents to a mini "PLP" night to help them understand the shift
- Host parent ed nights
- Education for parents to adapt to 21st century learning
- Parent education- need parental buy in
- Educate parents, students, and faculty about the importance of collaboration and community
- Regular conversations and dialogue with parents about education innovation
- Bring parents into the conversation and provide learning opps for them
- Parent workshops on social networking
- Use "PR" to tout inventive student work around academic content to parents
- Get parents to sign contract- to support school and let school teach and students learn
- Parents that expect teachers to try new ideas
- Introduce parents to the same tools the students encounter. More parent support= administration support
- Invite parents into classroom to see what the shift is about
- Invite parents to visit classrooms and participate in project based learning using web 2.0 tools
- Parent workshops to help them to educate themselves about technology tools. In that way they can become helpers effectively mentoring children at home supporting the school innovations
Schedule (82 dots)
- Alter schedule to allow for longer periods
- Re do the schedule
- Provide a schedule time for cross-curricular project development
- Year round schools with internships
- Longer time with students
- Change the schedule to create more free time
- A longer school year with regularly places (monthly) 3 day weekends 2 weeks between terms and 4-5 week summer vacation
- Use "study hall" time differently..- Guidance practice, collaboration, research-> time for passion-based exploration
- An hour every week for exploration
- Blow up the schedule and start again
- Each grade design its own schedule
- Change physical schedule of the day
- Rethink schedule for flexibility
- Break down the schedule
- Allow teachers to reduce amount of content to be covered in their courses
- Flexible schedule different structure to our days
- Blended learning
- Block schedule
- Design a schedule for project based learning
- Evaluate how our class schedule matched our learning goals and make needed changes
- More team teaching or splitting of responsibilities with colleagues to relive some of the teaching pressures
- All-year school with online blend
Time (24 dots)
- Practice, practice, practice, before classes settings
- Change idea: school for students and teachers.. schedule a block of time for teachers to learn and plan
- Nitty-gritty information is disseminated via email, F2F time as used to brainstorm/share ideas; faculty are learning in faculty meetings, not just listeners
- Decide this matters more than other initiatives and give 1-2 year commitment only to talk/focus on it
- Hire a tech integrationist to help classroom teachers
- Commit/team agrees to a specific amount of team time each month for collegial planning of pedagogy
- Weekly 1/2 days to do planning
- Use the longest blocks you have for technology
- Decrease teacher duties so teachers have time to develop new lessons and learn technology
- Give faculty time to work together to learn new tools and methods
- Dedicate faculty meeting time to share about 21st century tool use
- Individual can set modest but attainable goals. Eg: take one unit per trimester and 21st centuryize it
- Understand our curriculum better so we can combine overlapping lessons and create available time for students and teachers
- Retreats and paid workshops for faculty to share ideas, learn new tools and strategies
- Time to do projects built into curriculum maps
- Team dept and cross dept practice a new tool together
- Time to educate teachers. Schedules include this-
- Schedule days for self-selected faculty PD
- Lots of faculty meeting time allotted to discussion of innovation going on in different classrooms
- Regular faculty development over a month
- More time for communication/collaboration built- in (so it does`nt feel like one more thing)
- Faculty who like and respect each other find the time
- Set aside time for faculty/staff collaboration and creativity
- More frequent PD days
- Giving teachers more open periods to plan, learn, question, develop
- More work from home
- More money so more teachers can be hired and course bad decrease to allow time for technology
- Rethink what a full teaching really is
- Listen more teachers to lesson load
- Freeing up time constraints
- Time given to faculty to redesign and implement new ideas and technology
- Extend the school day/year but require more work periods- teacher guided "labs" instead of content delivery
- Help teachers relieve the pressure to follow a context based curriculum by scheduling a monthly passion-based inquiry each year
- Breakfast meetings, free food, engaging discussions, small groups
- After school/weekend classes for extra money
College Expectations (50 dots)
- Create organization to open up communication between schools and higher ed institutions. Place for primary/secondary to cover concerns about SATs/College admin process and for colleges to express concern about whats not being taught in schools
- Redesign college acceptance process- no entrance tests- portfolio and essay only
- Widen core curriculum to include arts
- Lobby for end of standardize testing
- Abolish Aps
- Organize a committee that will orchestrate this change in colleges/high schools at the same time. Agree to eliminate SAT it crunches us into a box.
- Redesign of SAT -College admission- grade requirements
- Change what colleges require to "get in"
- Stress the importance of finishing the best college for each student, not the best college as rated by news week
- Creation of new college acceptance methods
- Written campaign to colleges to change criteria for acceptance
Disposition/Attitudes/Culture (50 dots)
- Individuals can: just get started. Michael Jordan did not get good over night
- Encourage a culture of professional learning
- Make learning public- show the results of passion-based learning and support kids in making a good presentation
- Decision skills model and live good decision making
- Model change
- Talk, talk, talk with teachers about issues- "out" the worries and give one another support to explore the new
- Let go of fears
- Talk to the school board about why learning needs to change
- Incorporate the shift in the philosophy statement
- Collecting data: asses where people are in terms of "shift" so know starting point
- Before every teacher will make a change, every teacher must realize why change is needed. Start educating. The train is leaving.. get on before it leaves
- Schools should host great "thinkers" and invite teachers and parents- model what someone who is "passionate" looks/sounds like (TED talk-ish)
- Intentionally change the culture and language of departments/levels to be more inclusive of technology
- Trust/educate students not to go off-task during discussions
- Get up and go ask the teacher next door how to do it
- Just do it. Just start doing things and implementing lessons and let the buying begin
- Get started. Stay away from negative people
- Freedom of curriculum design (passion) for teachers and students
- Put old way and new way side by side for project to show improvement
- Cultivate a culture of innovation
- Individuals: model positive behavior and a problem-solving approach
- Have a time to celebrate new methods of presenting to encourage others.
- Create regular staff time- making it part of the culture- to share and learn together.. tools, struggles
- Technology support- communication, communication, communication about what do you need/want/expect from them
- Students consult on tech decisions and pre-test (student-teacher task force)
- More use of students to show faculty what works for them
- Accepting that 3rd graders still need to be taught traditionally
Hardware/Infrastructure (38 dots)
- Tech plan development needs to address transparent system (equipment, pd, etc)
- Allow students to use mobile devices in school
- A really useful/user friendly online center point through which all of our ideas/projects can be reached/used
- Blended learning
- I could get a 2010 computer!
- Access the library laptops more frequently
- Lots of good tech support
- Hardware`s nothing without support
- Technology support group that allow face to face help
- Technology that works
- Free v fee tools thru listserus, tutorials, workshops, etc, stay current on new tools available
- Laptop for 7-12 graders
- 1:1 laptops
- Every student has iPad or laptops of their own- so access is not an issue
- Laptops for all students
- Digital divide utilize class time and or implement laptops into program
- Lend out tools doe use during vacation times and for personal use
- Full time technology resource person on staff
- Additional educational technology staff
- Working now: infrastructure is good.. will get better in time
- School tech team: include teachers in creation of tech support system
- 2 dozen electrical outlets in every room
- Rewire all the old buildings
- Making sure the things we need are accessible. No blocking!!
Collaboration (55 dots)
- Students led project based learning for teachers, reverse roles.
- Involve the students- teach them and have them teach the faculty
- Have one project as a grade level presented 1 month, teachers work together for 1-2 months, present to division
- Choose a grade level and develop deeply into a shared/chosen web 2.0 initiative, but make it all the teachers at that level
- Team teach
- Team teaching in every classroom
- Each one- teach one. Every teacher/team make two Sept commitments to 1) learn a new approach 2) teach a colleague what you learned
- Each faculty meeting every division should start with two 3-5 min spotlight on current in-house projects
- Team teach a lesson to learn from each other
- Reshape focus of faculty interchange to allow learning not just listening in faculty meetings
- Team taught classes
- Integrate projects with more disciplines to add more time and opportunity to use 2.0 tools
- Curriculum planning/ redevelopment time
- Workshops/trainings
- Teacher/student collaboration toward common goal. Teachers must let go of their ego
- Technology coordinator to help teachers how to use those 2.0 tools
- Department meetings or specific topics weekly
- Advocate for change and why
- Hold 5 min brainstorm session during lunch
- Dialogue
- Staff to staff mentors to read and reflect lesson plans (public)
- Setting up more inter-building collaboration so students can help students and teachers learn new tech things
- Join with a "reluctant" hesitant peer to use technology at a personal level
- More Skype and collaboration with other schools across the country and world
- As pre-cursor perhaps have faculty show and tell before selecting PD
- Go-to subject area faculty members
- What can an individual do? Model, model, model!
- Structured collaboration workshops for teachers
- Interdisciplinary classes
- Inter-departmental conversations to present opportunity for interdisciplinary learning
- Have teachers share favorite web 2.0 tool of software when they meet
- Decide as a team to try new curriculum= comfort in working in a collaborative group
- Participate in lesson study together- and post ideas online to collect "outside" commentary
- "Team teaching" old world new application (?) 2+ learners in the middle
- Sell the administration on the changes you wish to see
Instruction (36 dots)
- New sets of goals
- Require online learning in every course. Make time for it
- Teach 1/4 of my English class online
- PLE, assign every student a different technology
- Let students design and present lessons
- If students use computer in class, they should sometimes have access only to website and tools I control at that moment.
- Aligning tech goals with ELA standards- no one has to look it up!
- Independent projects in upper school ( try similar with some in middle and lower)
- Working on social studies curriculum revision in LS (support by admin)
- PBL projects/models/exemplars for content/grade
- Require an inquiry based research project each year at each grade level
- Simply begin a passion based lesson and see how it goes
- Have people who know of great web 2.0 tools teach others how to use them
- Allow students to use the available technology to lead the lesson
- Start revamping traditional projects to integrate technology
- Use technology to help students learn to think not just find quick "answers"
- Develop technology that discourages multi-tasking some how
- Value prototyping: Every teachers goal is to try one new teaching technique
- Limit class size to 10 or 12 max
- Barrier- not enough time to teach basic knowledge. Give direction to passion-based learning that includes basic knowledge
- Internships in businesses to see what kind of tools are being used
Professional Learning Communities (94 dots)
- Redesign in Service
- Sharing success
- Dedicated time for planning and collaboration
-Repurpose faculty meetings and team time
Professional Development (5 dots)
- Faculty incentive
- Integration specialist
- Money and time earmarked for outside courses, visits
- Making it social and fun
- Develop common ground
- Tech teachers, 1 per 3 teachers
- Ask to have more PD time for just collaboration
- Find time that is accountable for faculty passion learning
- Engage the community in cross division experimentation
- Use librarians as resource for students in independent research project by submitting thesis statements to librarians ahead of time
- an on staff professional dedicated to helping teachers rewrite their curriculum for the 21st century
- Faculty intimidated by technology: assign big brother or sister for tech support
- Teacher workshops/PD that involve the creation of a product rather than relaying information (modeling what we want in classrooms)
- Weekly seminars (mini lessons) surrounding tech education. mandatory
- Time devoted in faculty meetings to introducing 1 idea at a time
- Meeting times where faculty can "show and tell" computer skills, sites, etc
- More open sharing of curriculum, conversations about curriculum, blogs, maps nets?
- Teacher model passion based inquiry and accept diverse final products
- Identify strengths already expected. Active learning. Not necessarily tied to technology
- Age/grade level learning tools and working on a common projector goals
- I could go observe Susan`s class at a time when the kids are working on their blog
- Working- conferences
- Have a technology specialist work with divisions for hands on workshop
- Tech specialist with solution programs
- highlight 5 new tools per year and bring in expert to introduce them. Have "experts" or trouble shooters within faculty
- Focused/targeted PD&E for faculty/staff so skill level/comfort level grows/ builds in authentic/class-based ways
- Educate and engage the community
- Inservice devoted to curriculum design supported by tech and library staff
- Develop non traditional programs. Get away from textbooks so they have to do research
- Educate administrators and teachers who are stuck in their ways of the importance of change in schools
- More substantive discussions of risks vs rewards of internet use
- Give teachers an opportunity to express resistance to technology. dont assume theyre wrong.
- Use in-service days wisely
- More professional development days for technology training
- Year long weekly teachers in-service on 21st century learning
- Restructure faculty meetings- all info that can be communicated electronically should be. This would free up time for faculty to work with these tools
- We could have a section on the wiki where teachers who are comfortable using certain tools volunteer to teach those who are beginers
- Wiki tutorials and discussions for help getting started on a new tool, ideas to use it: moderated by team
- Creative teacher with website, wikis, blogs, willingness to try
- Connect community (parents, faculty, staff, students) with the mission and value
- Have PD around fear/not knowing/being comfortable in darkness
- More targeted prof development- initiated by teachers
- Release time during the day to pursue DIYPD
- Formal plan to send department head to PD
- Put in place- participation in PLP and AIS ning
- PD for faculty- ongoing
- Workshops to teach web 2.0 tools
- I could set aside some time to learn a new tool on my own, or in a summer tech workshop
- Faculty read and discuss together a book on "21st century learning" so have a common ground
- Require that all teachers need same professional development book on 21st century topic in summer
- Have faculty in-service days dedicated to web 2.0 collaboration
- Have a weekly schedule for technology assistance so teachers have the time to get familiarized with the different tools and have subject based division meetings to create lessons that include 21st century tools
- Get support from colleagues outside of school
- Have monthly technology parties to get people interested
- Getting people on board with workshops and already made lessons
- Show success stories of tech integration
- Keep talking to our colleagues
- Create time for a small group of teachers and "expert" to collaborate. Give them a day or two out of the classroom to meet.
- Finding PD opportunities for faculty not creating our own
- Form groups of faculty member who have common interests issues, etc
- Provide explicit release time and expectation for that time
- Use of blogs for faculty sharing so meetings are more productive and people converse on own schedule instead of searching for common times.
- Have faculty meeting times be redirected toward collaborative work
- Summer institutes for teachers
- Make the faculty learning fun
- Provide focused professional development sessions, ie by content type
- PBL with teachers at professional development so they can try it
- Set sate to have lunch with fellow cohort school: how about Weston?
- Literacy of how- to that enable teachers to train themselves on technology
- Summer faculty led mini technology sessions where faculty learn a new approach/tool and write curriculum for upcoming year
- Mandatory higher levels of teachers web 2.0/ computer professionals
- Create opportunities for school-wide/cross unite conversations
- Mandatory technology classes
- Minimum PD house requirements per year for all faculty and administrations
- Development and implementation of integrated plan
- Develop vehicles to bring the world into our classrooms- starter course for rookies
- Use "mini grants" to incentivize work in this area
- Give teachers cool gadgets to play with
- One needs to change the way one teaches is ones changing the media used
- Incentives for motivated faculty (iPod touch, etc)
- Cash incentives for trying new tools
- More paid time to work with colleagues over the summer (when new ideas are easier to consider and plan for)
- Provide "how to" technology sessions for teachers